Good Samaritan pays off woman’s loan

The gray-haired Good Samaritan drove a
blue Lincoln, that’s all Sybil Shephard knew of the man who paid off her loan
with Speedy Cash.

He came by Monday evening and knocked on
her front door, Shephard said.

She looked through the peephole and was
afraid to answer the door.

“I didn’t know who it was,” Shephard
said.

She watched him walk across the grass
and knock on the neighbor’s door. Then he came back to her kitchen door. She
opened it and he showed a photo he had clipped from the newspaper. Was that
her?

Yes, Shephard told him.

Then he handed her the receipt for $282.
Underneath the highlight at the top, it said “Paid in Full.”

Shephard had taken out a loan for $164
from Speedy Cash in September in Arlington, in part to help out a friend. She
had taken out a short-term loan once before, $166 from Cash America, and was
able to pay it back. But this time she got caught. She had car trouble and
“life” got in the way.

Late fees were mounting and Shephard
told the Denton Record-Chronicle she was having a hard time seeing her way
clear in how she was going to pay off the debt.

The man left before Shephard could get
any details out of him.

I don’t even know who you are, Shephard
said she told him. That doesn’t matter, he called back, and she watched him
drive away.

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